A year and a half have passed since the last meeting between Obama and Netanyahu. Meanwhile, the Middle East has changed. Obama and Netanyahu came to power in the same year, and have not stopped sparring since. The climax was…
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Obama’s Iraqi-Syrian quagmire
Al-Qaeda in Iraq, or “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS), to give it its current name, has taken over the city of Mosul in the north. Iraqi forces have retreated in alarm. Thus, without warning, Iraqi Prime Minister…
Obama hamstrung but Assad will fall
Addressing the nation on September 10, Obama reiterated and defended the justice of his decision to attack Syria and at the same time backed away to give Russia a chance to relieve Assad’s regime of its chemical weapons. On the…
Assad must go
The smoking gun, about which so much has been said over the past year, has finally appeared. The corpses of babies, scattered on the ground, left nobody indifferent. There were no signs of blood; their death was silent and cruel.…
Obama claims the Arab uprisings for himself
In an exciting and revolutionary speech, US President Barack Obama laid out his Middle East doctrine, claiming the new reality created by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia must be grasped. I did not only support those uprisings, he seemed…
Tea Partiers release Fascist Genie from Bottle
The defeat of US President Barack Obama in the midterm elections may have been expected but was painful nonetheless. After two years with Obama in the Oval Office, the US economy is still struggling and unemployment affects some 15 million…
The Real “Non-starter”: Obama and the Imposed Solution
At a private meeting with Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu on March 25, US President Barack Obama asked for written responses to a series of American demands concerning construction in the West Bank settlements, including East Jerusalem. Since then, Israeli cabinet…
Settlements First
Ever since the speech by US President Barack Obama at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, construction in the West Bank settlements has become the focus of political attention in both Israel and the world. The clear, even blunt position…
Iran and America: The Will to Change
Two weeks have passed since the Iranian elections of June 12, 2009, and the storm aroused by the putative result refuses to die. What’s happening there is not a democratic disagreement, as the Emir of Qatar described it, but a…
A-Salaam Aleykom
Translation: Howard Klevansky The war of civilisations which has horrified the world since the events of September 11th 2001 ended in a wave of Barack Hussein Obama’s magic wand with the opening of his speech at the University of Cairo…